While I expected the snake to kill the alligator before eating it, as some constrictor snakes listen to a prey’s beating heart to know when to stop squeezing, it’s far more awesome to eat a full alligator alive.
The snake can afford to risk taking on prey the size of an alligator because of its slow digestive processes. Ingesting a full alligator lets the snake go without food for weeks.
These two shouldn’t even be together. Search “burst python” and read the NatGeo article. It deals briefly with the situation in the Everglades where unwanted “pet” pythons are thriving and contesting with the alligator for territory, food, etc.
HACHI MACHI!!!
so will a python kill a human before eating or just eat it???
yeah, and than this happens: http://deadlykingdom.blogspot.com/2011/11/python-eats-alligator-and-other.html
They really shouldn’t ever meet.